APPETITE FOR DISTRACTION

He’s always been something of a dark-horse hero but, thanks to a few recent and typically heartwarming spottings, we may now have reached Peak Keanu

If you travelled back in time to 1994 and told the 13-year-old Emer that Keanu Reeves was going to save the world in 2019, I probably would have believed you. I was in first year at school when Speed came out. I remember the hysteria, the race against time, Sandra Bullock’s aspirational brown bob, Keanu’s buzz cut and dopey action-hero charm.

A girl called Jeanette cried in maths class because she loved him ...